warlike

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The changes will also lower the threshold for reservists to be recalled so that reservists can be recalled for "warlike preparations".

From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026

That threshold will be lowered to "warlike preparations", which is already the threshold for reservists who have left active service in the past few years.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

Knowing all this, I had expected Wallnau in person to have a fiery personality to match his warlike rhetoric.

From Slate • Sep. 25, 2024

In 568 C.E., according to contemporary records, warlike horse riders from the Mongolian steppes called the Avars surged into the grassy plains flanking the Danube River, in roughly the territory of modern Hungary.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 24, 2024

In the earliest account of her, the Iliad, she is a fierce and ruthless battle-goddess, but elsewhere she is warlike only to defend the State and the home from outside enemies.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton